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CROSSWORD QUEERIES Comparing Tongues

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1 Sound like a spinning top 5 Taye, the “Black Clark Gable” 10 Obscene fourletter word 14 Frequent online claim 15 Gay 16 Field of study 17 Starting from 18 Cutter of leaves of grass 19 Pink lady liquors 20 London’s nation, with “the” 21 Start of a quip about the tongue of 20-Across 24 out (abate) 26 Operates like a chickenhawk 27 Canvas site 28 Make heady 30 State of Frida’s homeland 31 Wall St. group 32 Vidal’s “The of Comfort” 36 More of the quip 40 Library device 41 Soprano Gluck 44 David, on “Six Feet Under” 48 Trojan hero 50 “And there you are!” 51 It comes in a roll 53 Turtleneck alternative 54 End of the quip 57 Source of the quip 59 Cold war defense assn. 60 “Bear” that’s not a bear 62 Caesar’s invitation to a threesome? 63 James VI, e.g. 64 Kind of circle 65 Greek queen of heaven 66 “My bad” 67 Where to find Lincoln’s head 68 Judy Garland, for example Down

1 “The Double Man” author 2 How a butch might speak 3 Parting words 4 WNBA callers 5 Balk 6 Sheehan’s words after hole 7 Sportscaster Curt 8 Sharon of “Queer as Folk” 9 “The Talk” cohost Gilbert 10 Larry of “Dallas” 11 Melodic, to Bernstein 12 More tight-assed 13 Cheech Marin movie locale 22 Unlock, in verse 23 TÈa of “Fun with Dick and Jane” 25 “ On Down the Road” 29 St. of the Cathedral of Hope 30 Tijuana tanner 32 Play for a sucker 33 Feminizing tail 34 Ready for anything 35 Land of Damascus (abbr.) 37 Ike’s opponent 38 Toto’s home state (abbr.) 39 Brought up 42 Copland, for example 43 Neither male nor female 44 Just the same 45 Grace land? 46 Site of three rings 47 Puts out 48 Queen bee’s locale 49 Phallic fish 52 “Howl” author Ginsberg 55 Ditch school for the day 56 Fine-tune 58 Old fruit drink 61 Sothern of old TV